Rashidan District is a new
district
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in
Ghazni province
Ghazni (Dari: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in southeastern Afghanistan. The province contains 19 districts, encompassing over a thousand villages and roughly 1.3 million people, making it the 5th most populous province. Th ...
,
Afghanistan
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; it was created from the larger
Jaghatu district.
Administration
The capital appears to be Rashidan, a new township near Hussain Khel and Qulgina.
Geography
Healthcare
Education
After 2001 when Taliban fled the country, most of people sent their children to schools and universities. Rashidan district has two high school (Hussain Khil High school) and (Shahid Mohammad Azim High School) and around four secondary schools, which are located at different spots of the district. Shahid Mohammad Azim high school is located in Hussainkhel village near to the Rashidan district building.
Currently (2019) there are many young lecturers who teach at national universities of Afghanistan, Professor Khaliq Rashid who is from this district teaches at Jawaher Lal Nehru University in Delhi, India.
Another significant person from Rashidan is Khalilullah Hotak, who served as Chief of Staff for the former President of Afghanistan, Professor
Burhanuddin Rabani and head of the
National Directorate of Security
The National Directorate of Security (NDS; ps, د ملي امنیت لوی ریاست; prs, ریاست عمومی امنیت ملی) was the national intelligence and security service of Afghanistan. The headquarters of the NDS was in Kabul, ...
in many provinces. Hotak currently resides in Sweden.
Many more are holding bachelor's degrees in different fields and are currently employed by the government of Afghanistan.
Demographics
22,280 people are living in the villages of the district,
with 96% of them
Pashtun
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and 4%
Hazara.
Water Shortage
The continuing drought is the main problem of the district. In 2002, only 6% of arable land was farmed.
The lack of water make people leave their villages and go to other districts or abroad. In latest years with increase in the winter snowfalls the water level in this district has increased.
Trade and Commerce
People of this district are mostly engaged in agriculture, carpentry, and construction. Some people leave the district in summers and go to neighboring cities and outside of the country mostly Iran and Pakistan as labors and foremen.
Infrastructure
Natural Resources
See also
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Districts of Afghanistan
The districts of Afghanistan, known as ''wuleswali'' ( ps, ولسوالۍ, ''wuləswāləi''; fa, شهرستان, ''shahrestān'') are secondary-level administrative units, one level below provinces. The Afghan government issued its first d ...
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Ghazni Province
Ghazni (Dari: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in southeastern Afghanistan. The province contains 19 districts, encompassing over a thousand villages and roughly 1.3 million people, making it the 5th most populous province. Th ...
External links
Summary of District Development Plan2006
References
Districts of Ghazni Province
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